NASA Astronaut Group 6
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NASA Astronaut Group 6 was a 1967 class of NASA astronauts that included several future Apollo lunar mission crew members.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NASA Astronaut Group 6 canonical | 3 |
| NASA Astronaut Group 6 (1967) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2987281 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: NASA Astronaut Group 6 Context triple: [Apollo astronauts, selectionFrom, NASA Astronaut Group 6]
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A.
NASA Astronaut Group 5
NASA Astronaut Group 5 was a 1966 class of American astronauts that provided many of the crew members for later Apollo lunar missions and early Skylab flights.
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B.
NASA Astronaut Group 2
NASA Astronaut Group 2 was the second cohort of American astronauts, selected in 1962, that provided many of the key crew members for the Apollo lunar missions.
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C.
NASA Astronaut Group 3
NASA Astronaut Group 3 was a 1963 class of American astronauts whose members went on to play key roles in the Apollo lunar missions and later U.S. space programs.
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D.
NASA Astronaut Group 4
NASA Astronaut Group 4 was a cohort of scientist-astronauts selected in the mid-1960s to bring advanced scientific expertise to Apollo and later space missions.
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E.
NASA Astronaut Group 8
NASA Astronaut Group 8 was a 1978 class of NASA astronauts notable for including the first American women and minority astronauts, marking a major step toward a more diverse astronaut corps.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: NASA Astronaut Group 6 Target entity description: NASA Astronaut Group 6 was a 1967 class of NASA astronauts that included several future Apollo lunar mission crew members.
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A.
NASA Astronaut Group 5
NASA Astronaut Group 5 was a 1966 class of American astronauts that provided many of the crew members for later Apollo lunar missions and early Skylab flights.
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B.
NASA Astronaut Group 2
NASA Astronaut Group 2 was the second cohort of American astronauts, selected in 1962, that provided many of the key crew members for the Apollo lunar missions.
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C.
NASA Astronaut Group 3
NASA Astronaut Group 3 was a 1963 class of American astronauts whose members went on to play key roles in the Apollo lunar missions and later U.S. space programs.
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D.
NASA Astronaut Group 4
NASA Astronaut Group 4 was a cohort of scientist-astronauts selected in the mid-1960s to bring advanced scientific expertise to Apollo and later space missions.
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E.
NASA Astronaut Group 8
NASA Astronaut Group 8 was a 1978 class of NASA astronauts notable for including the first American women and minority astronauts, marking a major step toward a more diverse astronaut corps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut group
ⓘ
astronaut selection group ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
NASA Astronaut Group 6 (1967)
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Astronaut Group 6
The Original 19 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| member |
Bruce McCandless II
ⓘ
Charles M. Duke Jr. ⓘ Edward G. Givens Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred W. Haise Jr. ⓘ
linked to:
Fred Haise
Gerald P. Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack R. Lousma ⓘ James B. Irwin ⓘ John S. Bull NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul J. Weitz ⓘ Thomas K. Mattingly II ⓘ Vance D. Brand ⓘ William R. Pogue ⓘ |
| memberDidNotFlyInSpace | John S. Bull NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberDiedBeforeSpaceflight | Edward G. Givens Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberFlewOnMission |
Bruce McCandless II – STS-31
ⓘ
linked to:
Bruce McCandless II
Bruce McCandless II – STS-41-B ⓘ
linked to:
Bruce McCandless II
Charles M. Duke Jr. – Apollo 16 ⓘ
linked to:
Charles M. Duke Jr.
Fred W. Haise Jr. – Apollo 13 (did not land on Moon) ⓘ
linked to:
Fred Haise
Gerald P. Carr – Skylab 4 ⓘ Jack R. Lousma – STS-3 ⓘ Jack R. Lousma – Skylab 3 ⓘ
linked to:
Jack R. Lousma – STS-3
James B. Irwin – Apollo 15 ⓘ
linked to:
James B. Irwin
Paul J. Weitz – Skylab 2 ⓘ Thomas K. Mattingly II – Apollo 16 (CMP), Apollo 13 backup crew ⓘ
linked to:
Ken Mattingly
Vance D. Brand – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project ⓘ
linked to:
Vance D. Brand
Vance D. Brand – STS-35 ⓘ
linked to:
Vance D. Brand – STS-5
Vance D. Brand – STS-41-B ⓘ
linked to:
Bruce McCandless II
Vance D. Brand – STS-5 ⓘ William R. Pogue – Skylab 4 ⓘ |
| notableFor | including several future Apollo lunar mission crew members ⓘ |
| numberOfAstronautsSelected | 11 ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| predecessor | NASA Astronaut Group 5 ⓘ |
| program |
Apollo program
ⓘ
Skylab program ⓘ Space Shuttle program ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Space Shuttle program
|
| selectionType | pilot astronauts ⓘ |
| selectionYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| successor | NASA Astronaut Group 7 ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Apollo era ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: NASA Astronaut Group 6 Description of subject: NASA Astronaut Group 6 was a 1967 class of NASA astronauts that included several future Apollo lunar mission crew members.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: NASA Astronaut Group 6